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JOHNSON v. CHAPIN

12 N.Y.3d 461 (2009)

JANET M. JOHNSON, Respondent-Appellant, v. ALLAN M. CHAPIN, Appellant-Respondent.

Court of Appeals of New York.

Decided May 7, 2009.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

McDermott Will & Emery LLP, New York City (Daniel N. Jocelyn, Elliot Silverman and Susan S. Casero of counsel), for appellant-respondent.

Sheresky Aronson Mayefsky & Sloan, LLP, New York City (Allan E. Mayefsky, Lawrence B. Trachtenberg, Ronnie M. Schindel and John A. Kornfeld of counsel), for respondent-appellant.

Judges CIPARICK, GRAFFEO, READ, SMITH and JONES concur; Chief Judge LIPPMAN taking no part.

OPINION OF THE COURT

PIGOTT, J.

Husband and wife were married in January 1991 and have one child. Husband has four children from a previous marriage and is required to pay both maintenance and child support.

At the time the parties married, both were working attorneys. Wife stopped working outside the home when the parties' son was three years old. Husband was a partner at a law firm from 1968 until...

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